around the preformatted text, and could even inline such a page.
There is not currently a good way to turn off some processing steps for
-some page types. It's either all or nothing. --[[Joey]]
+some page types. It's either all or nothing. The patch in
+[[todo/format_escape]] might allow a formatter to register its own special
+version of htmllink that didn't do anything, but would that be enough?
+
+--[[Joey]]
+
+[Here](http://www.gmcmanus.org/plaintext.pm) is an alternate approach.
+It encodes entities using a filter hook, before wikilinks are linkified.
+So wikilinks turn up as links.
+It also uses URI::Find to turn URIs into links.
+
+I'm not very familiar with Perl, so this code could be improved.
+
+--Gabriel